Presenter: Beena Raichura Title of the workshop: Using Animoto create a video for Social Studies Subject: Social Studies Audience: Teachers teaching students in grades 7-12
Prerequisite skills:
Knowledge about Animoto, Voki and Flickr
Content
Animoto is a web-based tool that allows teachers to combine graphics, photos and video clips to introduce new topics, create activators, and “bring lessons to life.” Animoto is free, or teachers can upgrade for a fee to receive more features. Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Animoto automatically analyzes video clips, photos and music and orchestrates a custom video leaving you free to focus on the narrative and content of the videos. Animoto makes it easy to share your video as an email, on a website or blog, as a YouTube video or in a presentation from your own computer. It also allows you to add messages and quotes to the pictures in the video. This makes the video more personal for the students you are teaching and helps them to make connections.
It can be used to make videos to teach or present any subject but is especially useful in social studies to create a video about a country, or to demonstrate patterns of settlements in ancient and modern worlds, for citizenship and governance topics etc. Social studies is a vast subject with many sub topics presenting some of them via an Animoto video presentation would help improve learning.
The first step in using Animoto is to sign up for a free account. To do this by go to the website: http://animoto.com/education to apply for a free 6 month educator account. Complete the application(s) and click on “Submit Application”. Once you have your account, you can sign up and start using Animoto.
Objectives for this lesson
Participants will learn and share effective and creative ways to use Animoto videos in the classroom
Participants will learn ways to teach students to use Animoto in the classroom
Participants will incorporate using Animoto videos in the classroom for special needs students, students with speaking difficulties and ESOL students to provide them a another way to express themselves.
Participants will learn the strengths and drawbacks of using Animoto in the classroom.
How will you teach the lesson?
Having performed a needs assessment, I found that participants of this class want to know how to incorporate Animoto in their classroom to teach. Knowing that the participants have the knowledge of Animoto I will provide them with suggestions to incorporate Animoto in the classroom in Social Studies and other subject areas. I will present the strengths and weaknesses of Animoto using a voki. The aim of doing that is to be to demonstrate to the the participants a new form of technology the "Voki" and how it can be used effectively in the classroom to enhance learning.
This Voki describes the strengths of Animoto
This Voki describes the weaknesses of Animoto
Suggestions of ways to use Animoto videos in the classroom This Animoto video shows the various different ways in which Animoto can be used in the classroom
Post class videos of field trips, science experiments, group projects in social studies or science on YouTube and the classroom website
Email and share videos of the end of school year, end of semester class parties with parents
Down load on the computer to use with other presentations
Make a video to add to a lesson to make it multimedia enriched
Videos created on Animoto can be used with Ms Word, PowerPoint, Edline, Flipchart and Inspiration to enhance a lesson.
Students can use Animoto to make video to present their projects.
Create a 30 second commercial or public service announcement about…
Summarize the main idea of this passage in images and words in 30 seconds or less
Create video flashcards for vocabulary keywords in social studies ( e.g. governance, citizenship etc)
Great for brainstorming and story boarding
Create a simulated field trip
Have students create a 30 second video about themselves at the beginning of the year so that everyone can get to know each other.
Introduce new learning concepts to students.
Create a short photo brochure of a country you are studying.
Have students create 30 second news briefs about historical news events, natural disasters, or any event that ties into curriculum
Have students collect pictures around a certain topic, create Animoto, swap Animotos, then use for brainstorming a creative writing piece.
Students can create short videos showing the steps they took in completing a Science Project. This would highlight the Scientific Process and they can share their work with the other students in the classroom. (Whisper W.)
Suggestions to use Animoto in classroom in different subject areas
In Language Arts
For vocabulary words
At the beginning of the vocabulary unit go over the list of words with your students as you normally would at the beginning of a unit. Have students define words, provide proper parts of speech and provide sentences. Next arrange students in groups of two to three students. Provide each group with a digital camera and a vocabulary word from the list. Have students create an Animoto video for the word they are given.
In their video, students mus t include: The word The part of speech The definition At least two sentences An image relating to the word
Once the videos are created, the teacher can present the videos to the class. This can serve as a brief review for the upcoming vocabulary quiz.
In History and Social Studies
You could have students research an Amendment and make an Animoto video displaying the main points of that Amendment. Students can also do find images that represent that Amendment.
Teachers can do the same with Presidents, new countries learned about in social studies, Bill of Rights, American Wars etc
For Special Education and Life skills
Animoto videos can be used to show students good classroom behaviors like raising hands, speaking in a soft voice, sitting crossed legged on the floor etc. Teachers can also make videos to teach students various life skills such as crossing the street, washing hands, brushing teeth etc. Teachers can create video using images from the web or they can take photos of students in class doing the task.
Images and photos for the video can be selected from Animoto. To select groups of photos and graphics use the control key and the left mouse click.
You can also use Flickr to get images and photos to make an Animoto presentation or video. Flickr provides several ways to select copyright friendly images (from its creative commons section) to use in multimedia projects.
“All photos used from Flickr (or any other digital site) should be given appropriate attribution. This is modeling good digital citizenship to our students. Often it is difficult to find enough information to create a proper citation, so a simple photo credit with the URL to the original photo is sufficient. This can be done directly on the image or in a page at the end of the production.” (department of instructional technology, MCPS, 2010)
Evaluate/Test Yourself
Complete these activities and then complete an evaluation survey on the evaluation page of this wiki. You can navigate to that page from the table of contents or the navigation menu on the right.
Sign up for free Animoto Account
Download images on a topic of your choice from Flickr
Select 5 images or photos from the creative commons section of Flickr
Attribute credit to the photos you use from Flickr on the image
Select another 5 images related to your topic from Animoto
Create a short video using Animoto and the images from Flickr with narration and music.
OR
Create a video about yourself to introduce yourself to your students and their parents in the beginning of the school year. In the video include some fun facts about yourself, about your family, pets, favorite foods and what you like to do in your free time.
OR
Create a video about a place you would like to visit this summer. Tell us why you would like to visit this place and what you will do there. For your students you can have them research a place and make a video persuading parents to take them to this place of their choice for a vacation.
OR You can summarize the importance of the political, economic, and social life of Mali and other African empires and analyze the role of Islam in Africa using Animoto. Include a map of the region.
Additional Materials
iLearn technology is an EDU blog that talks about different ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. This link talks about "what is Animoto" and "how to use it in the classroom."
Animoto’s slideshow tool gets video support. This article from Cnet News talks about a new feature Animoto added to its repertoire in 2009 being able to add videos alongside photos and being able to convert photos and videos into a video slide show.
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Day 3
Presenter: Beena RaichuraTitle of the workshop: Using Animoto create a video for Social Studies
Subject: Social Studies
Audience:
Teachers teaching students in grades 7-12
Prerequisite skills:
Knowledge about Animoto, Voki and FlickrContent
Animoto is a web-based tool that allows teachers to combine graphics, photos and video clips to introduce new topics, create activators, and “bring lessons to life.” Animoto is free, or teachers can upgrade for a fee to receive more features.Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Animoto automatically analyzes video clips, photos and music and orchestrates a custom video leaving you free to focus on the narrative and content of the videos.
Animoto makes it easy to share your video as an email, on a website or blog, as a YouTube video or in a presentation from your own computer. It also allows you to add messages and quotes to the pictures in the video. This makes the video more personal for the students you are teaching and helps them to make connections.
It can be used to make videos to teach or present any subject but is especially useful in social studies to create a video about a country, or to demonstrate patterns of settlements in ancient and modern worlds, for citizenship and governance topics etc. Social studies is a vast subject with many sub topics presenting some of them via an Animoto video presentation would help improve learning.
The first step in using Animoto is to sign up for a free account. To do this by go to the website: http://animoto.com/education to apply for a free 6 month educator account. Complete the application(s) and click on “Submit Application”. Once you have your account, you can sign up and start using Animoto.
Objectives for this lesson
How will you teach the lesson?
Having performed a needs assessment, I found that participants of this class want to know how to incorporate Animoto in their classroom to teach. Knowing that the participants have the knowledge of Animoto I will provide them with suggestions to incorporate Animoto in the classroom in Social Studies and other subject areas. I will present the strengths and weaknesses of Animoto using a voki. The aim of doing that is to be to demonstrate to the the participants a new form of technology the "Voki" and how it can be used effectively in the classroom to enhance learning.
This Voki describes the strengths of Animoto
This Voki describes the weaknesses of Animoto
Suggestions of ways to use Animoto videos in the classroomThis Animoto video shows the various different ways in which Animoto can be used in the classroom
Make a video of your own at Animoto.
Created by Beena Raichura
Animoto for the classroom
Animoto can be used in the classroom to:Suggestions to use Animoto in classroom in different subject areas
In Language Arts
For vocabulary words
At the beginning of the vocabulary unit go over the list of words with your students as you normally would at the beginning of a unit. Have students define words, provide proper parts of speech and provide sentences. Next arrange students in groups of two to three students. Provide each group with a digital camera and a vocabulary word from the list. Have students create an Animoto video for the word they are given.
In their video, students mus
t include:
The word
The part of speech
The definition
At least two sentences
An image relating to the word
Once the videos are created, the teacher can present the videos to the class. This can serve as a brief review for the upcoming vocabulary quiz.
In History and Social Studies
You could have students research an Amendment and make an Animoto video displaying the main points of that Amendment. Students can also do find images that represent that Amendment.
Teachers can do the same with Presidents, new countries learned about in social studies, Bill of Rights, American Wars etc
For Special Education and Life skills
Animoto videos can be used to show students good classroom behaviors like raising hands, speaking in a soft voice, sitting crossed legged on the floor etc. Teachers can also make videos to teach students various life skills such as crossing the street, washing hands, brushing teeth etc. Teachers can create video using images from the web or they can take photos of students in class doing the task.
Images and photos for
the video can be selected from Animoto. To select groups of photos and graphics use the control key and the left mouse click.
You can also use Flickr to get images and photos to make an Animoto presentation or video. Flickr provides several ways to select copyright friendly images (from its creative commons section) to use in multimedia projects.
“All photos used from Flickr (or any other digital site) should be given appropriate attribution. This is modeling good digital citizenship to our students. Often it is difficult to find enough information to create a proper citation, so a simple photo credit with the URL to the original photo is sufficient. This can be done directly on the image or in a page at the end of the production.” (department of instructional technology, MCPS, 2010)
Evaluate/Test Yourself
Complete these activities and then complete an evaluation survey on the evaluation page of this wiki. You can navigate to that page from the table of contents or the navigation menu on the right.OR
Create a video about yourself to introduce yourself to your students and their parents in the beginning of the school year. In the video include some fun facts about yourself, about your family, pets, favorite foods and what you like to do in your free time.
OR
Create a video about a place you would like to visit this summer. Tell us why you would like to visit this place and what you will do there. For your students you can have them research a place and make a video persuading parents to take them to this place of their choice for a vacation.
OR
You can summarize the importance of the political, economic, and social life of Mali and other African
empires and analyze the role of Islam in Africa using Animoto. Include a map of the region.
Additional Materials
iLearn technology is an EDU blog that talks about different ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. This link talks about "what is Animoto" and "how to use it in the classroom."Animoto’s slideshow tool gets video support.
This article from Cnet News talks about a new feature Animoto added to its repertoire in 2009 being able to add videos alongside photos and being able to convert photos and videos into a video slide show.
Video Tutorial
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Creating Animoto Videos in other Disciplines!
1. Additional Materials